Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-01-01
FLORIDA.

FLORIDA.
The Silver Springs Hotel will open
to-day.
The Ocala House willopen to-day under
Boston hotel men.
Pensacola's new school building will
be dedicated Monday.
The Orlando public school has on its
roll the names Of 2S3 students.
Machinery has arrived for the third
brIckyard at Sauble, near Palatka.
Work on the brick building for the
Bank of Ocala will commence next
month.
Over 10. 900 boxes OF oranges have passed
over the st. Johu's and Halifax railroad
this season.
Chuluota wants a good physician and
promises a good field for one willing TO
wait for awhile.
The President of the Grand Rapids and
Indiana railway, in his private car, Is
travelling through Florida.
The property owners OF Ocala have
been notified that they must build a side
walk in front Of their property.
The South Florida Railroad has sub
scribed 81 900 to the South Florida Expo
siuon at Orlando next February.
Smyth q Barnabv, orange packers Of
OllduuO, HdNt pIjtu hbOub cSOOO DOABS
of oranges during the past month, prin-
cipally to New York, Boston and Phila-
delphia.
c. w. Sherman and family will leave
Orlando in a short Time for California,
where thew will spend h short time with
trends, after which they will 90 TO Italy
to make it their home.
l.. j. Dollins is arranging to erect
three-story brick building on the lot al
Orlando where his present wooden office
stands. Mr.. Dollns says he will make it
one ofthe finest and best brick structures
in south Florida.
A negro man was shot by another negro,
Jacobs, Monday in the Cotton Plant dis
trict OF Marion county. The shooting is
said to have been caused by too much
freedom with aniece of Jacobs. The man
died few hours after the shooting.
A small dwelling house on East Hill,
Pensacola, the property Of +. G. Brent,
was destroyed by fire last Thursday. The
house was occupied by Mr.. Hantz, who
lost all his furniture, The building was
valued at $500 and was fully covered by
insurance.
The election returns Of Baker county
have not all been received. but it is con-
coded that James Burnside, Collector OF
Revenue, A. j. Green for Assessor, John
Dormau, Charles Berry, and T. p. Taylor
tor Comm issioners, have been elected by
good maiOritles.
The brick building that ia being put up
on the corner OF Orange and Central ave-
nues, Orlando, by Ii. :. Kedney, of Win
ter Park. Will be, when com pleted, a
credit to Orlando. Its cost is estimated
at about $50 600. 1t will take about four
months to finish it.
The street railway company of Orlando
began to put down Jus rails Thursday. 1t
Will take about ten days to finish laying
them, and cars will b. running at the eX-
pratiOn of that time. The cars have
already been shipped from Philadelphia
and are expected 10 arrive to-day.
Lynn shipman, colored, was shot at
Stanton, by II. II. Walker of the Stanton
Lumber Company last Saturday. The
shooting was done in self defense. The
negro isknown as a hard character. He
died Ifew hours afterward, and an in
quest was, held, on Sunday. rendering
verdict in accordance with the above
facts. nf.Ir..-
Five years ago the shipment or oranges
from Citra amounted to about 10000
boxes. This season it will ship about
100000. Then 10000 bearing trees, now
100000, with half that number budded not
yet bearing. Then "a few thousand dollars
were paid to those who worked the groves
and gathered the fruit, now $140,G00 for
similar work.
J. Z. Hester, the young man who shot
the negro Cox at Silver Springs, was
found guilty before the preliminary ex-
animation. lie was taken to Gainesville
before Judge King on. babeas corpus,
who placed him under bond OF $1,000 for
:, -. appearance before the next term of
noy. tfcuit Court. The accessories in the
!. ~se were acquitted.
Noah May, cOlored man, residing some
three miles southeast of Citra, was
drowned on Wednesday last in the Dick
inson Prairie. 1t seems that he was duck
hunting in his canoe, when 1t is supposed
that he fired his gun at the game. | was
perhaps overcharged and the rebound
knocked him out of the boat, and being
stunned by the blow was drowned.
The drill in the artesian we'll at the
Ponce de Leon Hotel, st. Augustine.
Thursday morning struck a vein OF sui
phur water, at depth of $40 feet, that
overlooked the surroundings and wet all
the workmen. A test has not vet been
applied, but it is estimated that the flow
is not far from 100000 gallons daily,
the largest known in the world. The
quality is not satisfactory, however, ard
the work or deepening will be pushed on.
Jake Butler, one of the negro fishermen
shot in the fight at Mellonville, near San
ford, last Tuesday, died from the effect of
his wound Tuesday night. A c0roner's
jury was summoned by Coroner SHRINE,
who rendered a verdict thai Jake Butler
came to his death from pistol shot in
the hands OF Nelson Watson. and that
Henry Shoemaker, Russell Wilson ard
Robert Sundon were accessories to the
murder. Nelson Watson, the principal,
is dangerously wounded, and is under
guard at his home in Mellonville. All
the accessories have been arrested and
put in jail. Trey nave been sent to Or
landa; so will Watson, the principal.
Jake Butler in his dying statement said
that Nelson Watson shot him. The wit
nesses in the case have been summoned
to appear In Orlando on next Tuesday,
Jan. 4.
The sale OF twelve acres of the mari
bed belonging to A. f. Waterman near
Ocala, was consUmmated Wednesday,
| Professor II. :. Greene, OF ST. Louis. be-
coming the purchaser tor himself and a
company OF capitalists. The price paid
was $4,000. During the last year this
| bed OF rock has received examinations
| from Professor j. Kost, State Geologist,
| who now ptonounces IL the finest lime
rock In the State, and containing all the
tilizers iH ltion OF the 9' co orp.
pany who purchW set to put in a shaft
I at once and pXpOrt the etuff IN NOrtharn